Is a new musical from the songwriters behind the massive hit movie "Frozen" premiering in San Diego next year?

That's what Alex Timbers says - although the director, whose musical version of "Rocky" is currently on Broadway, may have been a little early to the punch.

Timbers told Deadline.com that he's working on "Up Here," an original musical by the Oscar-winning "Frozen" composers Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez.

Timbers said the show will be staged at La Jolla Playhouse next year. He described the piece as "a boy-meets-girl, boy-loses-girl, boy-gets-back-girl romance with an overlay of Cirque (du Soleil)."

A Playhouse production would make sense, given the theater's reputation for developing new musicals (including "Jersey Boys," whose Clint Eastwood-directed film version debuts this month), and its relationship with Timbers.

The director has previously worked on two shows in La Jolla, including "Peter and the Starcatcher," which went on to become a Tony Award-winning Broadway hit in 2012. He was most recently in town last year to direct the Shakespeare-based rock musical "The Last Goodbye" at the Old Globe.

The Playhouse, though, told the U-T it could not confirm the project, saying that "it's not part of our season at this point." (You might classify that as a non-denial denial, since no show is officially part of the theater's 2015 season; the lineup hasn't been announced yet.)

Robert Lopez, who won a Tony for the score to the massive hit "The Book of Mormon," told Playbill in 2011 that "Up Here" is "the thing I've been most excited about for the last five years. I really can't wait for people to see this crazy vision."

Lopez and Anderson-Lopez, who are husband and wife, won an Oscar this year for the "Frozen" song "Let it Go," sung by "Wicked" mega-star Idina Menzel.